David Korten: America’s Deficit Attention Disorder

[just1voice]

3. Outstanding article, which is why very few here will ever read it

and here's exactly why; most here buy into the political propaganda and never consider these points from the article:

"Democrats have the better side of the argument, but both sides have it wrong on two key points.

* First, both focus on growing GDP, ignoring the reality that under the regime of Wall Street rule, the benefits of GDP growth over the past several decades have gone almost exclusively to the 1 percent—with dire consequences for democracy and the health of the social and natural capital on which true prosperity depends.
* Second, both focus on financial deficits, which can be resolved with relative ease if we are truly serious about it; and ignore far more dangerous and difficult-to-resolve social and environmental deficits. I call it a case of deficit attention disorder."


I read very few posts in my total time here that suggested people actually get that the entire system is broken and so they continually refuse to even look at re-framing the public debate.